Vice President Biden has been flying home to Wilmington, Delaware most weekends at enormous expense to taxpayers, even though he has an exclusive government-provided residence in Washington.

Biden himself acknowledged the flights during recent remarks to the National Association of Attorneys General, noting that the sequester would force him to temporarily alter his expensive habit and use the train instead.

According to reports, Biden generally uses Air Force Two to get to Wilmington.

The cost of flying Air Force Two, a military version of the Boeing 757-200, amounts to about $8,800 per hour, according to the most recent federal data.

Here’s the sad thing. If you left out of DC on a Friday at 3PM...it’d take around 80 minutes to get to his house there. For the VP...he has to take a car out to Andrews...sit on the tarmac for twenty to thirty minutes before take-off, land at Delaware, and then drive to his home. Figure it’s two hours for all of this to happen.

Sounds to me like some Secret Service guys ought to be fired. Alternate between Amtrak and driving the black SUV out to Delaware, or order Joe to just stay around DC like the other folks on weekends.

I always wonder what biteme would look like if we the tax slaves hadn’t paid for his hair plugs, the veneers on his teeth, and his expensive clothes. I suppose he’d look like an old, bald, snaggle-toothed libtard corruptocrat from Delaware.

“That would amount to a roundtrip cost to taxpayers of about $13,200.”

Who uses a 757 to fly a hundred miles? You’d scarcely get above pattern altitude, for pity sake. Our royalty are completely out of control!

That 13 grand for ONE weekend would provide my wife and me a vacation of a life time, one for which we’ve worked a lifetime but will never see. Just for comparison, I make 19,000 a year from Soc Sec and they call that an “entitlement”. That dimwit Biden would run out of fuel half way home on his second trip. Wouldn’t that be a shame?

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posted on 03/24/2013 10:29:25 AM PDT
by beelzepug
(Telling other people they need to die is a good way to get your own lamp blown out.)

The constant hypocrisy is cause for mass resentment regardless of party affiliation. The Government needs more revenue, people need to pay their fair share, blah blah blah. Yet these Marie Anotinette Democrats keep on with their extravagant spending, parties and vacations. Pigs. Ptuh!

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posted on 03/24/2013 10:32:38 AM PDT
by Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)

These people have a strange sense of entitlements. You have worked for that social security money, you earned it! But to them, it is an “entitlement.” Yet they literally waste billions on spending for themselves because they are “entitled” to. Sauropod expresses it well. I too despise these people.

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posted on 03/24/2013 10:36:09 AM PDT
by Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)

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